REPORT: Justice De-Investment: The Regrettable Expansion of the Statehouse-To-Prison Pipeline (December 2018)
This is a follow-up report to one we released in January 2018 examining the problems of mass incarceration and overcriminalization that arise from RI's routine passage of laws that create new crimes and increase prison sentences for current offenses, often with little analysis or logic behind them.
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CAMPAIGN: The Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline
January 1, 2018
Increasing Penalties for Driving Offenses (H 5112, H 5699, H 6098)
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“Second Chance” for Juvenile Offenders (S 376)
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Free Phone Services for Incarcerated Individuals (S 406)
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Distribution of “Sexually Explicit” Material to Minors (H 5756)
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Creation of Crime of “Menacing” (H 5895)
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“Mandatory Reporting” Failure Penalties (H 5358)
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